As the curtailment of prosecutorial investigative powers and the debate over dismantling the Prosecutor's Office have moved from theory to reality, South Korea's criminal justice system stands at a crossroads of fundamental transformation. With investigative power shifting toward the police, the force is no longer a supporting institution — it is now the central actor in national investigation, accountable for both its authority and its results. Yet expanded authority does not automatically translate into public trust. How the police handle the weighty demands of investigative expertise, polit
Diplomacy Journal David Kendall 기자 | "The Human Cost of Terrorism" is a two-day digital exhibition hosted by the Embassy of India in Korea from March 24 to March 25 at the National Museum of Korean Democracy in Seoul's Yongsan-gu district. The venue is darkly well suited as it occupies the former Namyeong-dong Anti-Communist Interrogation Office, a nondescript, gray seven-story building constructed in 1976. Officially labeled the "International Oceanic Research Institute," the facility operated as a clandestine site where students, journalists, and labor activists were subjected to systematic